EBRC

French Army Future Armored Vehicle Platform

The future armored vehicles family under development
for the French Army is a central element of BOA - the French Army
Transformation program. Fielding of the entire family of wheeled and
tracked vehicles is planned for 2025. Emphasis of the EBRC family is
on wheeled platforms, which is considered more suitable for high
mobility and operations in urban terrain. The vehicles will be
equipped as direct and indirect effectors (the new buzzword for
"weapons platforms") and will combine cannons of various calibers,
(including the 40mm Case Telescopic gun) mortars and missile
systems.

EBRC will utilize
hybrid-electric propulsion combining
both diesel and electrical propulsion. Other features considered for
the new vehicles include the application of mission-specific
protection kits (special kits could be tailored for Low Intensity
Conflicts (LIC), new weapons (high intensity laser, microwave
weapons etc), urban combat (IED, snipers, RPG sent), and even law
enforcement & peacekeeping scenarios etc (countering fire bombs,
stones etc.) An integral application of stealth will be provided via
multi-spectral camouflage, active protection system and
countermeasures, integration of battle-management information
applications assisted by decision support systems, which will
relieve commanders from the workload generated by multiple sensors
and information feeds generated in the networked battlespace.